St Nicholas [serial] . HROUGH THE Where little ^^{5 wore cibcen;^ownQ,capc,curle,ar>c) ?ar>^ with poQte^ opy,ihn) little bo^tn flowered coalj, baft wigs and bioj) beeleU chose tbejj caj» PINK TOPAZ. The Princess had lost her Pink Topaz ring, andthe palace was being turned inside out and upsidedown as the entire Court rushed hither and thithersearching for it. All sorts of missing articlesturned up, everything that had been lost foryears, everything, that is, save the Princesssring. The tumult had reached even the As-trologers Tower, that nook where perched theWisest Man in the kingdom, w
St Nicholas [serial] . HROUGH THE Where little ^^{5 wore cibcen;^ownQ,capc,curle,ar>c) ?ar>^ with poQte^ opy,ihn) little bo^tn flowered coalj, baft wigs and bioj) beeleU chose tbejj caj» PINK TOPAZ. The Princess had lost her Pink Topaz ring, andthe palace was being turned inside out and upsidedown as the entire Court rushed hither and thithersearching for it. All sorts of missing articlesturned up, everything that had been lost foryears, everything, that is, save the Princesssring. The tumult had reached even the As-trologers Tower, that nook where perched theWisest Man in the kingdom, writing the Historyof King Yolos family. Whereas he would have smiled calmly over theloss of anything else (except his salary), he now,having shut his glasses in his book, was search-ing madly for them in order to join in the huntfor the Pink Topaz. It was he, the Wisest Man, who understoodmore fully than any one else how terrible a ca-lamity had befallen the Princess Lotis, in the lossof her ring. The first chapter of his Historywas given to a description of the jewel, withfoot-notes which took up twice as much spaceas the chapter. It had been in the family fortwenty-seven generations, dating from
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